Travelling Texts: J.M. Coetzee and Other Writers

by Robert Kusek, Bozena Kucala

Overview

Travelling Texts: J.M. Coetzee and Other Writers is a collection of essays on mutual influences and inspirations between authors, with a special focus on J.M. Coetzee. In particular, the essays, most of which are comparative, explore the Central/Eastern European and South African literary inheritance in his writings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631656181
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	09/26/2014
Series:	Text - Meaning - Context: Cracow Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture , #10
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.04(d)
Language:	German

About the Author

Bożena Kucała is Assistant Professor at the Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at the Institute of English Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland). She is the author of Intertextual Dialogue with the Victorian Past in the Contemporary Novel (2012) as well as numerous articles on contemporary British fiction.
Robert Kusek is Assistant Professor at the Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at the Institute of English Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland). His publications include a monograph as well as numerous book chapters and articles in academic journals.

Table of Contents

Contents: Bożena Kucała/Robert Kusek: J.M. Coetzee and Other Writers – Johan Geertsema: Hidden Literality: Coetzee, Beckett, Herbert, and the Attempt to «Touch Reality» – Bożena Kucała: On Lost Causes: Zbigniew Herbert and J.M. Coetzee – Wojciech Drąg: Putting It Bluntly: Elizabeth Costello in Krzysztof Warlikowski’s (A)pollonia – Robert Kusek: Travelling Texts, Travelling Ideas. Janina Duszejko Meets Elizabeth Costello, or on Reading J.M. Coetzee in 21st Century Poland – Zofia Ziemann: The Inner and Outer Workings of Translation Reception: Coetzee on (Wieniewska’s) Schulz – Pojanut Suthipinittharm: Finding Authenticity in an Inauthentic Novel: J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg as Personal Confession – Hania A.M. Nashef: Let the Demon in: Death and Guilt in The Master of Petersburg – Angelika Reichmann: «The Only Truth Is Silence»: Stavrogin’s Confession Revisited in J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg – Joanna Jeziorska-Haładyj: Matters of Rhythm, Masters of Form – Duncan McColl Chesney: Serious Fiction: Coetzee and Kertész Under the Sign of K – Kamil Michta: Shame and Morality: John Maxwell Coetzee’s Disgrace in the Context of Walter Benjamin’s Reading of Franz Kafka’s The Trial – Olga Glebova: The Art of J.M. Coetzee and the Legacy of European Modernism: The Kafka Intertext in Elizabeth Costello – Ottilia Veres: Remembering Beckett: J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K – Krystyna Stamirowska: Other Selves and the Human World in J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K (1983) and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (1915) – Marek Pawlicki: Reflections on Ethics and Creativity: A Discussion of Literary Works by J.M. Coetzee, Robert Musil and Czesław Miłosz – Jan Tlusty: On Unreliability of Memories: J.M. Coetzee’s Autofictional Trilogy – Eglė Keturakienė/Gabija Bankauskaitė-Sereikienė: Henrikas Radauskas and Rainer Maria Rilke: Parallels in Their Poetry – J U Jacobs: Writing from a Middle World: Perspectives on, and from, South Africa – Kai Wiegandt: Icarus and Albatross: Rising above Nationality in J.M. Coetzee’s Autrebiographies and Damon Galgut’s In a Strange Room – Ryszard Bartnik: Frozen Thoughts on (Post-)Apartheid Transgressions as Conducive to Producing New «Unsolicited» Sprouts of Contriteness. Tony Eprile in Line with John Maxwell Coetzee on the Importance of Memory in Democratic South Africa – Krzysztof Kowalczyk-Twarowski: The Middle Voice: Positionality and Agency in J.M. Coetzee’s Work – Lilia Miroshnychenko: «We’ll Land Together on That Shore»: Sceptical Mind in Doris Lessing’s The Cleft.